Skills for Mars

What has work been? What is work now? What could work look like?

Control to Integration | Telling to Learning | Competing to Cooperating | Silos to Coalescence

Every time I talk to Stelio Verzera - I feel energized, I learn something new, my mid opens to new ideas and challenges.

Stelio’s view of the world of work is expressed differently. He is not alone in looking at things from a systemic, ecoistic point of view, but the way he is bringing this into the world is unique.

This conversation takes us to many places – from anti-fragility to surfing emergence and rediscovering ourselves. We look at technology, polycentricity and sense-making. We talk about the future, how the world of work will move from control to integration, from telling to learning, from competing to cooperating, from silos to coalescence across boundaries.

Stelio Verzera is an Evolution Coach and the Co-Founder of Cocoon Pro.

Cocoon Pro Cocoon Pro is a last-generation company devoted to fostering real value creation in the world-wide work ecosystem. It’s been designed to be effective, emergent, open and adaptive in the journey of generating and scaling-up mastery. Her customers are organizations longing for deep evolution in order to stay relevant, resilient and resonant.

Here you can find out more about:

- Stelio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/

- Cocoon Pro:

-https://cocoon-pro.com/

-https://medium.com/mozaic-stories/a-story-you-need-to-know-299a72d63f5

- Care4Live: https://care4.live/

- Ohana Meet-up:

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🚦 Being Boring is a luxury!

🚦 Capturing attention, with the cleverness of an advertiser - is a useful skill now and in the future.

My guests on this episode, two brilliant humans:

★ WILL AWDRY – Copywriter, writing coach & free-roving creative director who has looked after brands like BP, Kodak and Mercedes (https://willawdry.blog/)

★ ADRIAN DOCEA – the Co-founder & Innovative Director of the Heraldist, an agency that helps start-ups find and express their unique brand, product and value propositions (https://www.heraldist.com/)

We believe that “capturing attention” is an essential skill in a very busy and noisy world. Not only for brands and companies, but for each of us. We will talk about:

🚩 LinkedIn differentiation

🚩 Using tools and frameworks to exercise our creative muscle

🚩 Creativity through language mastery

🚩 The awesome copywriting masterclass that the Herladist and Will are running together (https://www.heraldist.com/stbrendan/masterclass/will-awdry-copywriting)

To get in touch with Will and Adrian, just reach out to them on LinkedIn:

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-awdry-a30820a/

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriandocea/

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I know a lot of people who had to #reskill and carve out new career pathways for themselves.

It is very difficult! When the education is there, employers are not. When the employers are willing, governmental support is missing. We have tons of amazing free online education. But it is not recognized by businesses. There are incredible people who took the leap, learned something totally new. They need work experience to get started, but an internship is only for “fresh” graduates. And while we are complaining about talent shortages, we are not really willing to employ someone who has so drastically changed their career. Let someone else try first…

Today’s podcast is about #reskilling, #education and #meaningfulcareers.

My guests are two amazing people who are passionate about changing the world of work. They provide education, identify career pathways and support the transition of those who are experiencing major career shifts:

➔Jamie Albers, the co-founder of Mento (https://www.mento.co/about)

➔David Timis, the Global Communications Leader at Generation (https://www.generation.org/)

To get in touch with them:

- Jamie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiealbers/

- David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtimis/

We will talk about:

➔ The impact this past one and a half year has had on the job market

➔ The harsh realities of career transitioning for the re-skilled

➔ Transforming education to allow for multiple and diverse pathways throughout our lives

➔ The 4Cs needed to succeed in the world of work

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➔ Can you envision "Zero Trauma Transformation" for your organization?

➔ How and when would you engage in deep change, without the need to do so?

➔ Once successful, how do you avoid the "Resilience Paradox"?

My guest today is Liisa Välikangas, professor of Innovation Management & Leadership at the Technical University of Denmark.

This time, our resilience quest, is to learn to run before the lion starts chasing us and to do so with as little pain as possible. The journey is not predefined and there is no magic wand. So, we will talk about

- Rehearsal for change

- Building cognitive flexibility

- Scenarios and experimentation

- Courage and serendipity

- Jesters, the Resilience Paradox, and the ideal “Zero Trauma Transformation” are also part of the discussion.

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Enjoy our conversation!

Today we will see the world of work through the eyes of the world’s first industrial philosopher– Cristina di Giacomo.

Following a successful corporate career, Cristina spent over 10 years studying the ideas and practices of the greatest thinkers. She has bottled up the magic of their philosophy and is enabling leaders to find and use their wisdom in the world of work.

We will talk about:

➜ Wisdom as the ultimate skill that will drive resilient careers

➜ The 4-step process of achieving wisdom

➜ Various practices of wisdom

➜ Her book – WiseUp at work!

You can find Cristina here:

https://cristinadigiacomo.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinadigiacomo/

And her book: https://cristinadigiacomo.com/wiseupatwork

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➜ Is there more to Autonomous Vehicles than a transportation solution?

➜ How does this innovation affect Systemic, Societal Change?

➜ And what does resilience have to do with all this?

Roland Kupers is going to take us on a captivating journey of climate change, complex systems and their resilience.

Roland Kupers is a theoretical physicist by university training and he has spent the first 20+ years of his career working for major corporations. Since 2011, he is acting as an advisor for Cities, NGOs, Think Tanks, Corporations and Government on topics related to Energy Transition, Complexity and Resilience

He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate and co-authored:

➜The Essence of Scenarios – Learning from the Shell Experience (with A. Wilkinson – Amsterdam 2014)

➜Complexity and the Art of Public Policy (with D. Colander – Princeton 2014)

➜A Climate Policy Revolution (Harvard 2020)

Roland was a co-author of a report commissioned by the German Government on a New Growth Path for Europe. In 2013 he was the Director for the inception phase of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.

For those who are interested in contacting Roland:

- https://www.rolandkupers.com/

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-kupers-3575734/

Here is a direct link to Roland's latest book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972124

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We have chosen HYBRID as the new way of work.

HYBRID is challenging and faces the risk of inheriting the worst of the two worlds of work.

HYBRID opens up concerns about Power - Fairness - Trust - Performance. Can we address them?

Mark Mortensen (INSEAD) is joining me today, for a 2nd round of discussions, exactly 12 months after we have recorded together an episode of the Making Remote Work series. We go through the research that has been conducted this past year and talk about hybridity – power and fairness, trust, performance and adaptation.

Most importantly, Mark will share his insights and tips so that the hybrid world we are walking towards will be successful for both individuals and organizations

For those who want to access Mark's latest publications:

➔ https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-your-team-members-lonely/

➔ https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/teams-in-evolution-and-revolution-after-the-pandemic-15876

➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/making-the-hybrid-workplace-fair

➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/wfh-is-corroding-our-trust-in-each-other

Mark Mortensen is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.

His area of expertise is organisational collaboration, with an emphasis on two increasingly prevalent ways of organising that do not fit traditional models of team dynamics: globally distributed (virtual) and project-based work.

Mark's research has been recognised by the academic community through awards including the William H. Newman Award, Organisational Behaviour Division Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, and Runner-up OCIS Division Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management; and the Best Paper Award Finalist nomination by the Interdisciplinary Network of Groups Researchers. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals including the Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and International Journal of Conflict Management. His works has been featured in multiple edited volumes, practitioner journals such as the MIT-Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review Online, and IESE Insight; and in media outlets including the Economist, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail.

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➜Are there facets to Organizational Resilience?

➜Can we learn how to proactively adapt to sudden changes?

The answer is YES! And there is a Framework, a Tool and a Methodology to do so!

My guest on this episode is Heidi Askin, the Director of Culture and Transformation at Bel, an INSEAD EMBA graduate and a passionate of Resilience and Complexity Science.

Heidi set out to study Organization Resilience a few years ago and her research led to:

✔️ A framework of Organizational Resilience

✔️ A description of the 8 axes on which Organizational Resilience can be built (inclusive of strategic, operational, social and human components)

✔️ The concrete factors that can be used to assess the current level of resilience

All of these, including a case study, will be discussed in the episode. We hope this will provide a useful, practical tool to start building your Organizational Resilience today!

For those interested in reaching out to Heid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-konzen-askin-5453233/

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LET'S START A CONVERSATION! I am looking forward to your comments!

- What is the change that you would like to see in the world?

- What would you do make this change happen?

For this episode, my guest is one of the though leaders on the topic of Social Impact - Samira Khan.

👉 Samira is the Senior Manager of Global Impact Engagement at salesforce.org.

👉 She is a changemaker and intrapreneur, who deeply believes that unlocking human potential lies in true empowerment.

👉 With over 15 years of experience across continents and sectors, Samira is committed to learning & listening, using holistic models to drive systems change.

💬 You can find Samira here:

Twitter: @samiraakhan

Clubhouse: @samirakhan

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiraakhan/

📢 Join Samira and me as we discuss about:

✔️ managing and measuring social impact

✔️ the role of technology in empowering changemakers

✔️ where you can start today to add social value – as an individual or as an organization

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Today we are looking through the lenses of sociology and psychology to answer two questions:

1. How can organizational culture act as a shock absorber & help companies rebound from adversities?

2. What makes individuals resilient?

Together with Huggy Rao, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford Graduate School of Business, we will:

✅ Discuss how "cultural protections" enable people and organizations respond to shocks

✅ Provide examples on how to activate the "best self" in each individual and how this will lead to increased resilience

✅ Emphasize the need to move from "a room called fear" to a "room called hope" for both individuals and organizations

✅ Moving away from Planning towards building the CARE-SHARE-DARE muscle in Organizations

🔷Professor Rao studies collective action within organizations and in markets. His research and by implication, his teaching, revolves around scaling up mobilization, innovation, and talent in organizations.

🔷His most recent book, co-authored with Bob Sutton of the School of Engineering at Stanford, is "Scaling Up Excellence". The book is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and was included in the best business books to read in 2014 by Financial Times, Inc Magazine, Amazon, Forbes, Washington Post and the Library Journal.

🔷His research has been published in journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He is also the author of “Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation”, Princeton University Press. 2009.

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